As anyone who has seen them in the flesh can tell you, Kula Shaker’s live shows are less like gigs than bonafide happenings, where the bilateral flow of positive energy feels powerful enough to levitate.
The band’s brand-new 7th studio album, ‘NATURAL MAGICK’, finds the original four members delivering their renewed wild energy that we know and love. A mesmeric 13-track incantation incorporating blazing psychedelic sermons, raga rave-ups, stardust-coated pop pearls and mood-enhancing mantras, it is a technicolour sonic pathway towards a more enlightened state of mind. There is kinetic energy coursing through every second of ‘NATURAL MAGICK’ that is planted firmly in the rolling 24-hour news-feed mind-mash that is today’s Planet Earth.
“This chapter in the band’s life is very much driven by live energy and that spiritual connection with the audiences which comes with it,” explains Crispian Mills of the band’s approach to the sound of the album. “We all agreed to make this album a Kula Shaker fan’s dream. It was very similar to the way we recorded K, back when we only had half an hour to blow people away, and recording much of it in-between shows while touring.”
The new album heralds the return of keyboard wizard Jay Darlington from a decade with Oasis and various Gallaghers, therefore reuniting all four members of the band’s classic line-up (Crispian Mills: guitar/vocals; Jay Darlington: Hammond organ/keys; Alonza Bevan: bass; Paul Winter-Hart: drums).
“It was one of those fortuitous moments of synchronicity,” says Crispian, “When we first reformed in 2007, Jay was still in Oasis, but at the end of last year the intertwining paths of fate brought us back together. Also, around the same time, our original management team of Kev Nixon (who also co-produced the album with Crispian and Alonza) and Sarah Clayman took over again, and so we’ve got the whole crew back together from when we made (multi-platinum-selling debut album) ‘K’. There’s an excitement and momentum you feed off in these situations. Two days after Jay did his first official gig back with us at Shepherd’s Bush Empire last December, we were in the studio recording new songs.”
‘NATURAL MAGICK’ will be available on CD, digital, cassette and vinyl formats.
Album pre-sale link: https://slinky.to/NaturalMagick
Album tracklisting:
1 Gaslighting
2 Waves
3 Natural Magick
4 Indian Record Player
5 Chura Liya (You Stole My Heart)
6 Something Dangerous
7 Stay With Me Tonight
8 Happy Birthday
9 IDONTWANNAPAYMYTAXES
10 F-Bombs
11 Whistle And I Will Come
12 Kalifornia Blues
13 Give Me Tomorrow
Kula Shaker will play the following shows:
28/09/2023 IT Teatro Cominale, Ferrara
22/10/2023 DE Berlin – Columbria Theater
23/10/2023 DE Hamburg – Uebel & Gefahrlich
25/10/2023 DE Cologne – Burgerhaus Stollwerck
26/10/2023 BE St Niklaas -De Casino
27/10/2023 FR Paris – Point Ephemere
13/02/2024 JP Big Cat, Osaka
14/02/2024 JP Diamond Hall, Nagoya
15/02/2024 JP EX Theatre, Tokyo
22.10.23 Heimathafen Neukölln in Berlin!!!